Former world champion Carl Froch has cast doubt over the Jake Paul versus Anthony Joshua fight despite having flights booked for the December 19 bout in Miami, PUNCH Sports Extra reports.\n<\/p>\n
The British boxing legend dismissed Paul\u2019s recent claim that Lawrence Okolie gave him a black eye during sparring, suggesting the YouTuber-turned-boxer is not good enough to properly spar with the former cruiserweight champion.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re not sparring, Jake Paul. They\u2019re moving around with him, touching him up with a little jab and the little technical rubbish. They\u2019re not sparring with him. Lawrence Okolie is quite a good puncher. He\u2019s big now. Jake Paul\u2019s not good enough to spar him,\u201d Froch told Games Hub in an exclusive interview.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cSo let\u2019s see the footage. Let\u2019s see the sparring, and then I\u2019ll believe it. I still don\u2019t believe the Jake Paul versus AJ fight is going to happen, but I\u2019ve got flights booked.\u201d<\/p>\n
The professionally-sanctioned heavyweight bout has drawn widespread concern from boxing figures, with Muhammad Ali\u2019s grandson, Nico Ali and former world champion Amir Khan both warning that Paul is putting his life at risk. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very dangerous for Jake Paul. Boxing is not rigged, it\u2019s very dangerous,\u201d Ali Walsh told SunSport, adding that \u201cpeople die in the ring.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Khan echoed similar sentiments, stating, \u201cSomeone like Jake Paul needs to be protected by his own team; no one\u2019s really helping him in my opinion. You can put the poor guy\u2019s life on the line, and that one punch can always change your life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite his scepticism about the bout, Froch expressed admiration for Joshua\u2019s impact on boxing.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if me and AJ saw each other, which we might be doing in Miami, when he fights Jake Paul, hopefully we will have a handshake and have a chat,\u201d Froch said.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat he\u2019s done for boxing is phenomenal, and no one\u2019s done that since Ricky Hatton or Naseem Hamed. We\u2019ve seen world champions come and go that haven\u2019t done as much for the sport as AJ.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world champion Carl Froch has cast doubt over the Jake Paul versus Anthony Joshua fight despite having…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-339308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}